Category: Urban inequalities

Introduction In the world of Covid-19 2020, remote education is the most viable strategy for schooling. During the first few months of the year, a state of sanitary emergency was declared throughout most of Latin America. Classes were suspended, without accurate predictions as to how long the suspension would last. The halt in the educational system […]

We are in the middle of a global crisis of extraordinary proportions that is affecting age groups in a different way. Statistics show that the elderly and people with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease are more vulnerable to Corona Virus, although in the U.S., 12% of the intensive care patients and […]

Equity for Children shared its expertise about urban inequities affecting children at an invitation-only conference and workshop jointly organized by UNICEF and UN-Habitat, entitled “Strengthening Data and Research for Children in Urban Settings”.  Global university and research center experts met in Florence to discuss how to fill data gaps and strengthen available evidence based on […]

Equity for Children’s Impact Report 2019 is now available. You can download the PDF version or read it here.  

On October 14, economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee of MIT, along with Michael Kremer of Harvard gained recognition for their pioneering work in poverty reduction as recipients of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The work of these Nobel laureates has been monumental in the field of development economics. It did not […]